<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's a game, all you have to do, is know how to play it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's a game, all you have to do, is know how to play it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in the world as an integral part of it, is the primary body through which the reality of the phrase "the Church is service" has to be manifested in all spheres of secular life: the Church has to show in her own life and attitude towards others the evidences of the redemptive order which is in Christ an operative fact: Christ the Lord is also Christ the servant: the Church which is the lord of all life is also the servant of all life, and the lordship is shown only through the service. The world wants to see redemption: it is not interested in being talked to about it. A church which is not outward looking... has ceased to be a church as the Body of Christ and has instead become a club for the benefit of its members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand democracy, security, stability and termination of occupation in Iraq to provide the grounds for its reconstruction and development, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41297]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand democracy, security, stability and termination of occupation in Iraq to provide the grounds for its reconstruction and development,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33928]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear a sound so fine there's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;  Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;  Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul,   And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl;    Serenely full the epicure would say,     "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  When Paul speaks [II Cor. 3] of our being ministers of the New Testament, he does not refer to books most of which were not yet written, but to the gospel, which he found in the Scripture he possessed. The Jews could only see "Old Testament" in Moses and the prophets, because they were blind. To the spiritual all Scripture is gospel, or New Testament (the Law being the schoolmaster, bringing us to Christ), but to the natural and self righteous, as we ought to know from experience and observation, all Scripture (gospels and epistles included) is Old Testament, or Covenant of Works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and therefore thought preferable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23338]]></link><description><![CDATA[How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.  . . . .   Like Eden's dead probationary tree,    Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  The Old Testament does not occupy itself with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  The Old Testament does not occupy itself with how Israel thought of God. Its concern is with how Israel ought to think of God. To it, the existence of God is not an open question, nor His nature, nor the accessibility of knowledge of Him. God Himself has taken care of that He has made Himself known to His people, and their business is not to feel after Him if haply they may fumblingly find Him, but to hearken to Him as He declares to them what and who He is. [Continued].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2506]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10413</guid></item></channel></rss>